Skype killing Windows Phone: Nokia responds — Summary: Nokia responds to a recent article about Nokia's partnership with Microsoft and how it is hurting Lumia sales. The transcript and video of CEO Elop's comments are included here. — Nokia has responded to a recent ZDNet Mobile News article …

How Hewlett-Packard lost its way — Léo Apotheker's disastrous tenure as HP's CEO revealed a dysfunctional company struggling for direction after a decade of missteps and scandals. Can his replacement, Meg Whitman, fix the tech giant? — By James Bandler with Doris Burke

RIM Names Kristian Tear COO, Frank Boulben CMO — Research In Motion this morning announced two addition to its management team. — The company named Kristian Tear as chief operating officer. Tear has been with Sony Mobile Communications, where he served as executive VP.

T-Mobile: iPhone network compatibility coming this year — T-Mobile's network will be compatible with the iPhone later this year — even if it isn't selling it, the company said today. The wireless carrier added that it had tapped Ericsson and Nokia-Siemens for its $4 billion 4G LTE deployment.

On Thneeds and the “Death of Display” — It's all over the news these days: Display advertising is dead. Or put more accurately, the world of “boxes and rectangles” is dead. No one pays attention to banner ads, the reasoning goes, and the model never really worked in the first place (except for direct response).

Apple's reputation untarnished by tax issue, study says — Apple's use of various tax loopholes to save money, as chronicled in a recent New York Times story, has not damaged the company's reputation, according to a new study. — Polling firm YouGov — which we've previously mentioned …

Viddy hits 26M users, consistently registering over 500K a day — On April 16th, I wrote an article about how popular video sharing app Viddy had hit 6.5M users. Less than a month later, the company tells me that it's starting to consistently sign up over 500K new users a day, and currently boasts a userbase of 26M.